October workshop

Our model Casey in some of the improvised poses she developed in and around the natural amphitheatre where we based ourselves for the workshop.

Our latest weekend workshop considered the figure in landscape from a notion of refuge, of the human form absorbed in the natural light and engulfed within the textures of vegetation and the rock flow where we based ourselves for the two day workshop.

We discussed a quote from Rilke :

… (one) will hear more of the powerful melody of the background, the other less. Many no longer hear it at all. They are like trees that have forgotten their roots and now think that the rustling of their branches is their power and their life.

We discussed transitioning the scene from its reality to a flat rectangle of paper; how space as continuity and in isolation are formed within pictorial space through conventions and inventions of language.

These themes activated by the natural surrounds and the energised poses created by our model Casey brought out some really interesting work from the participating artists who put their all into rising to the occasion. Here is a selection of the work they made.

Alice Cavanagh

Carolyn O’Keefe

Danielle Rochecouste

Deborah Hay

Helen Rowe

Peter Noakes